Friday Five: 5 Social Media Tips for Entrepreneurs

RingCentral’s VAR Team joined over 3,000 franchise professionals from many of the most iconic franchise brands at the IFA Annual Convention at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas last week. RingCentral networked with current and prospective customers, attended the Taste of Franchising reception, co-hosted the Aftertaste Party, attended Condoleezza Rice’s keynote speech, and of course [...]

RingCentral exhibited at ITEXPO East in Miami Beach, FL last week. We introduced our new booth, and brought along especially bright booth staff (check out our orange pants!). Fashion do or don’t aside, the show wasn’t all about making a fashion statement; RingCentral showcased  Business SMS, participated on two panel discussions, interviewed with TMC, met with current and [...]

The holiday season is upon us, and that begs the question: what more can you as an employer/manager to keep your employees happy and motivated? Here at RingCentral, we have several office activities to lift the spirits of employees and overall maintain a jolly office environment. Below are a few things we’ve rolled out this holiday [...]

We’re excited to announce we’ll be a sponsor at VentureBeat‘s second annual CloudBeat event here in the Silicon Valley. The event is this week, November 28-29, at Hotel Sofitel in Redwood City, CA. Join us as we explore real cases of revolutionary cloud adoption! If you haven’t already registered, don’t worry because it’s not too late. As a [...]

Last week, the RingCentral partner team and I attended the Cloud Channel Summit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. The annual event is designed for cloud businesses looking to build successful reseller alliances and cloud ecosystems. RingCentral’s own channel reseller program is a valuable and successful part of our business. As with all [...]

We are thrilled to announce that our chief executive officer, Vlad Shmunis, will be speaking this week at an event organized by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE). The panel discussion in which Vlad is participating, “Creative Destruction: The Role of Entrepreneurial Risk-Taking in Business Creation,” is part of an NFTE event that will take place [...]

Happy Halloween from the team at RingCentral!

For the past month, RingCentral’s Director of Social Strategy, Baochi Nguyen, has been touring the nation with the Social Media Strategies Summit. Earlier this week, she presented on Superfans in Boston.   The Social Media Strategies Summit Blog posted a great summary of Baochi’s talk on building a brand ambassador program. To view the slides from her presentation, [...]

Even in our digitally connected world, nothing trumps the value of in-person meetings. That’s why RingCentral exhibits at various trade shows throughout the year. It’s a great opportunity to talk about our cloud-based communications platform to prospective and existing customers. But managing a trade show booth is no easy task. As an event coordinator for [...]

This past week, the RingCentral team participated in the annual RadioShack Business Summit, where we showcased RingCentral’s cloud-based phone system to over 1000 RadioShack dealer franchise stores! The Summit opened with an inspiring keynote by RingCentral’s SVP of worldwide sales, Ryan Azus. During the ensuing two days of the show, we helped RadioShack dealer franchise owners understand how [...]